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Nubian
Jak Quiz
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| Politics
and Law |
| 1.
Who was the lead defence lawyer in the O.J. Simpson "Trial
Of The Century"?
CHRISTOPHER DARDEN
ROBERT SHAPIRO
JOHNNY COCHRANE
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| 2.
To which country in the Spring of 1997, was Sidney Poitier appointed
Bahamas Ambassador?
JAPAN
AMERICA
FRANCE
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| 3.
Name the largest "ethnic" populated borough In Britain
for which Merle Amory became Britain's first Black woman council
leader in 1986.
BRENT
TOXTETH
MOSS-SIDE
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| 3.
Who in 1993 became the Chair for the largest race watchdog in
Europe, The Commission for Racial Equality?
LORD JOHN TAYLOR
SIR HERMAN OUSELEY
DIANE ABBOTT
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| 4.
In 1980 Mary Eugenia Charles became the first woman to become
prime minister of a Caribbean State. Name the Island.
DOMINICA
ST KITTS
BELIZE
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| 5.
In 1990 Bill Morris became the head of Britain's largest Trade
Union for industry and the private sector. Name it.
UNISON
TRANSPORT AND GENERAL WORKERS UNION
GMB
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| 6.
In what year did Britain first pass an act officially outlawing
the institution of slavery?
1772
1833
1838
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| 7.
What Amendment to the US constitution outlawed slavery in America?
1ST
5TH
13TH
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| 8.
In 1992 Jocelyn Barrow set a precedent by becoming Britains's
first Black what?
DAME
COUNTESS
LADY-IN-WAITING
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| 9.
For which area of London was Lord David Pitt given the Peership
in the late 1980s?
GREENWICH
HAMPSTEAD
FINCHLEY
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| 10.
The British Labour Party's National Executive member, Diane
Abbott, became the first Black woman elected to Parliament.
In what year?
1987
1988
1992
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| 11.
Before becoming a Baroness in 1997, Patricia Scotland, in 1991,
became the first Black woman in Britain to become what?
LORD MAYOR
QUEENS COUNCIL
MAGISTRATE
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| 12.
In what year did Thomas Hayne Rainey become the first African
American to preside over the US House of Representatives?
1874
1924
1974
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| 13.
For what area of London did Liverpudlian, John Archer, become
Britain's first Black Mayor in 1913?
CAMDEN
PADDINGTON
BATTERSEA
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| 14.
Where was the 19th century Black English working class hero
and anti-slavery lobbyist, Robert Wedderburn, born?
RUSSIA
AMERICA
JAMAICA
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| 15.
In 1989, for the London Borough of Hackney, Gus John became
Britain's first Black director of a local authority for what
department?
FINANCE
EDUCATION
WELFARE
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